By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
As Stankovic himself says: Well, this is the end of the season, so I wanted to do something a little more laid back and fun. I have a good collection of basketball anecdotes and I keep adding to the pile. Since I lived most of my life in the former Yugoslavia and Spain, it’s logical that most of them come from those two countries, but I would be grateful to readers who want to add some more. The only condition is not to offend anyone, that the story has some spark to it and that is in good spirits.
Proceed to read the stories!
10. PRISONERS
In the mid-19650s, Ranko Zeravica, then a young coach, is on the bench of Radnicki Belgrade. The team had to travel to Skopje, some 400 km away from Belgrade. With no money at all in the club’s account, Ranko called Ante Lambasa, then the president of the Radnicki sports society (and later president of the International Swimming Federation) and a high functionary at the Ministry of Interior. He found a ‘solution’ to the problem: the full team had to be at the station at the time the train to Skopje was leaving, and they had to go to the first car right behind the locomotive… The solution became apparent when two policemen received the team: they travelled for free as prisoners!